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Artem Kaznatcheev
Artem Kaznatcheev
12:00 AM
well, just spend 5 rep on downvotes, haha
 
Jeff
Jeff
@ArtemKaznatcheev I don't think this q/a is so bad... OP asked for a term, and one was given. No one asked for a definition or anything, so no elaboration is really needed
 
Artem Kaznatcheev
Artem Kaznatcheev
@Jeff oh, I like the question, and I don't dislike the accepted answer. It is just the second answer that bothered me
 
Jeff
Jeff
oh
 
Steven Jeuris
Steven Jeuris
@Jeff True that!
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A: What level of initial research is expected on questions?

Steven JeurisWe somewhat established non-experts are welcomed here. Of course there is a good chance that 'consensus' mainly originated from this site having more non-experts than experts. Is this a problem? This is really difficult to analyze. In its current form this site is trying to be open to experts a...

 
Ben Brocka
Ben Brocka
@Jeff it wasn't a terrible answer, but not quite what I was looking for either
 
Steven Jeuris
Steven Jeuris
12:03 AM
Sorry for continuing linking to it. But I do so because I truly feel that's the common ground we should be trying to find.
 
Jeff
Jeff
what were you looking for ben?
 
Ben Brocka
Ben Brocka
Something specifically to do with choices, not generally information. "paradox of choice" kind of works but I was hoping for something more formally accepted
 
Steven Jeuris
Steven Jeuris
@ArtemKaznatcheev Then up vote the comment Ben left.
@BenBrocka You could rephrase as a more specific question.
 
Jeff
Jeff
paradox of choice is a term used in the literature, though personally i prefer 'choice overload' (re: my comment to that answer!)
 
Steven Jeuris
Steven Jeuris
(in a new question of course)
@ArtemKaznatcheev Wow, that is low effort. That OP did not google 'Identicle strangers' as he originally formulated it.
I definitely down vote stuff like that.
 
Artem Kaznatcheev
Artem Kaznatcheev
12:10 AM
a question I really want to upvote: cogsci.stackexchange.com/q/688/29 but can't bring myself to do it because the user has not shown initial research :(
This is a beautiful answer: cogsci.stackexchange.com/a/690/29
 
Steven Jeuris
Steven Jeuris
@ArtemKaznatcheev cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/685/… Happy with the comment I left behind? :)
 
Artem Kaznatcheev
Artem Kaznatcheev
@StevenJeuris solid comment.
I followed your lead and made another comment.
 
Steven Jeuris
Steven Jeuris
@ArtemKaznatcheev Right .. we have to remain optimistic! :)
I'm calling it a day.
I feel we made some progress in our ongoing discussion today!
Nice talking to you all! See you later.
 
Artem Kaznatcheev
Artem Kaznatcheev
cheers!
I should go, too. I have done a good job of procrastinating on reading this thesis... and should really get back to it now
Is this an example of a positive effect of structured procrastination? :P
 
 
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Steven Jeuris
Steven Jeuris
9:16 AM
@ArtemKaznatcheev I should consider tagging that question with my name.
 
 
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Jeromy Anglim
Jeromy Anglim
12:40 PM
I just posted a possible FAQ based on Stats.SE that could act as a starting point: meta.cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/232/…
let me know what you think.
 
Josh Gitlin
Josh Gitlin
1:00 PM
@JeromyAnglim Thanks! I'll check that out
 
Ben Brocka
Ben Brocka
1:44 PM
thoughts on this suggestion?
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A: How should our FAQ define us?

Jeromy AnglimI think this is an important question, and it does provide an opportunity to summarise the huge amount of meta discussion that we have had already about what the site is about. The following is the start of a possible FAQ based on the FAQ for Stats.SE (aka CrossValidated). If you think this is ...

@JeromyAnglim oh, you already posted it :P
 
 
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Ben Brocka
Ben Brocka
4:40 PM
@JoshGitlin hahaha I have more rep total than you now :P
 
 
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Josh Gitlin
Josh Gitlin
6:04 PM
@BenBrocka Yes you do. Looks like I need to post more freehand circles to MSO :-p
 
Artem Kaznatcheev
Artem Kaznatcheev
my bad on the downvoting yesterday. I am writing an answer to the question now
It might be appropriate to take disciplinary actions against me
 
Ben Brocka
Ben Brocka
6:30 PM
You weren't committing vote-fraud or voting out of line in any way. In retrospect it was probably a poor choice for us to bring up so many posts by the same user though (though it's hard with a site this small)
It could have been handled better but it wasn't anything inappropriate
 
Artem Kaznatcheev
Artem Kaznatcheev
@BenBrocka and @JoshGitlin can you let me know if you think my answer is out-of-line?
 
Josh Gitlin
Josh Gitlin
@ArtemKaznatcheev I'll check in a little bit, busy with work. A quick scan shows no serious problems
 
Ben Brocka
Ben Brocka
@ArtemKaznatcheev Looks completely fine, I did leave a comment though
 
Artem Kaznatcheev
Artem Kaznatcheev
@BenBrocka yeah, I saw the comment, and I agree with it.
 
Ben Brocka
Ben Brocka
Looking over the downvotes he got, I frankly can't contest any of them. It's just the timing that was bad. Really most of the DVs were explained but in old comments
 
Artem Kaznatcheev
Artem Kaznatcheev
6:43 PM
I am wondering if I should comment on and flag the answers that are really comments
or just ignore it
I feel that if I do so now, then I really will be targeting the user :(
 
Ben Brocka
Ben Brocka
This is why you should do those things when the answer comes up, rather than acting on several posts at once when you think about it
In general the conjecture answers are just bad answers though, not comments. Only flag if there's no attempt to answer the question or they're just something like "I wonder if this could be Y" and no useful information is present
 
Artem Kaznatcheev
Artem Kaznatcheev
okay
 

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